2011+, walk

A sagfaced man
who must once have been fat
A man perhaps forty
with thinning dark hair
a rough laugh
and a phone to his ear
A man in black sunglasses
on this grey day
A man whose open shirt lapels
frame a small show
of dark body hair
on wan skin

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I dreamed I was starting
in a running race
There were four 400-metre laps
Everyone else limbered up
When the gun went they took off
sending up divots from their spiked shoes
I stretched myself a bit and looked around
The finish line was only 50 metres from the starting blocks
Just there
Practically in front of me
so I walked forward until my belly touched the tape and said, Well?
But the man with the flag said
You're disqualified
You didn't run the four laps
What the hell were you thinking? Get out of here!